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The man authorities believe was responsible for the New Year's Day shooting death of a national park ranger in Washington state was a former soldier who owned many knives and guns despite an emotionally unstable, vindictive and anger-prone mind-set, the mother of his toddler daughter said in court documents.
While investigators said Monday they had little insight into Barnes' mind-set or motivations, the woman with whom he was in a custody dispute over their young daughter said in court documents filed last year that she was frightened to be in the same state with him.
"The weapons are harmful and I don't know if he will try to use them against myself or my family," the woman wrote in a filing for a temporary restraining order filed with the Pierce County Superior Court on May 24.
Before the shooting at the national park, Barnes was wanted in connection with a shooting Sunday in the Seattle suburb of Skyway that left four people wounded.
A woman who said she had spurned Barnes' romantic advances said he visited her on Sunday morning.
She thought Barnes was a nice guy when they first met, but that he "seemed sketchy" after she got to know him better. That he turned to violence in his final days wasn't shocking to her. "It doesn't surprise me, honestly. He is a loose cannon. If he doesn't get his way or something makes him upset, he goes all the way out of control".
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/03/justice/washington-ranger-killed/?hpt=us_c2
While investigators said Monday they had little insight into Barnes' mind-set or motivations, the woman with whom he was in a custody dispute over their young daughter said in court documents filed last year that she was frightened to be in the same state with him.
"The weapons are harmful and I don't know if he will try to use them against myself or my family," the woman wrote in a filing for a temporary restraining order filed with the Pierce County Superior Court on May 24.
Before the shooting at the national park, Barnes was wanted in connection with a shooting Sunday in the Seattle suburb of Skyway that left four people wounded.
A woman who said she had spurned Barnes' romantic advances said he visited her on Sunday morning.
She thought Barnes was a nice guy when they first met, but that he "seemed sketchy" after she got to know him better. That he turned to violence in his final days wasn't shocking to her. "It doesn't surprise me, honestly. He is a loose cannon. If he doesn't get his way or something makes him upset, he goes all the way out of control".
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/03/justice/washington-ranger-killed/?hpt=us_c2